WTF

[TriggerDiscipline]

I think amazing work warrants an open mind.

the irony

[Shucks]

Fellas, fellas, fellas, you're working way too hard. Haven't you learned by now that aaanything can be sold with a solid cat gif?

i take it you haven't seen my lecture slides.

[apathy!]

An here's me, writing a keynote on the importance of storytelling in content marketing. FML.

Stroytelling:

Create a ridiculous universe centred around your product that appeals to people's pathetic, self-obsessed need to find objects that define them.

posts in bbs collection thread reminded me of this juun j ma-1:

[550BC]

[Fuuma]

An here's me, writing a keynote on the importance of storytelling in content marketing. FML.

When you no longer speak English but switched to Corpospeak you know you're fucked for life.

[mrbeuys]

When you no longer speak English but switched to Corpospeak you know you're fucked for life.

Hence the three letter acronym at the end of my post. And the first sentence was very deliberately phrased.
Then again, you have not seen the keynote. Not all content has to be shit just because it sells something.

[BSR]

Not all content has to be shit just because it sells something.

agreed. I'd go even further: most contents, valuable or not, interesting or not, sell something, one way or another. Cf art.

[Fuuma]

Hence the three letter acronym at the end of my post. And the first sentence was very deliberately phrased.
Then again, you have not seen the keynote. Not all content has to be shit just because it sells something.

Not necessarily shit in and by itself and I understand that companies are moving toward or have already arrived at a sort of blend of "entertaining/informative" content, sponsorship and marketing that can sometimes be aesthetically pleasing, at least compared to a fucking car ad and it's commonplace shots of "freedom" being shoved in your face.

I'm re-reading some Sagmeister artbooks and even some of his most mundane corporate business card work can be inventive.

[Fuuma]

agreed. I'd go even further: most contents, valuable or not, interesting or not, sell something, one way or another. Cf art.

This sounds like the postulate of an undergrad essay. Sure Tolstoi attempts to convey certain values and even to convince you of specific things but it is almost meaningless to say that, in his novels, something is being "sold" in the way an Apple keynote is selling you something. I'm not even talking about the respective value of these two sets of "content".

If what you are trying to say that there is currently very little distinction between a dominant media article (say Le Monde or New York Times) and sponsored content than, yeah, ok.

[BSR]

This sounds like the postulate of an undergrad essay. Sure Tolstoi attempts to convey certain values and even to convince you of specific things but it is almost meaningless to say that, in his novels, something is being "sold" in the way an Apple keynote is selling you something. I'm not even talking about the respective value of these two sets of "content".

If what you are trying to say that there is currently very little distinction between a dominant media article (say Le Monde or New York Times) and sponsored content than, yeah, ok.

ok sorry, i should have added "contemporary contents"
and... hmm... in a tolstoi's book something is being sold. It is the book.

[Faust]

Hence the three letter acronym at the end of my post. And the first sentence was very deliberately phrased.
Then again, you have not seen the keynote. Not all content has to be shit just because it sells something.

Exactly.

[interest1]

i take it you haven't seen my lecture slides.

haha, no. But here's your newest one:

[messenoire]

the firsT time i've seen rick branding something so blatantly other than socks. i had no idea this existed until today
$189 vicious headband

[interest1]

^ I love how one man's Good Find is another man's WTF.

edit: oh, that was you! oopsie

[messenoire]

^ I love how one man's Good Find is another man's WTF.

edit: oh, that was you! oopsie

haha yeah! the more i looked at it the more i felt